WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether President Bush has the power to force state courts to reco...

Former residents of a Palmdale apartment building have settled a $1 million lawsuit alleging slumlike conditions in a seven-un...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - When Don Imus or some other voice goes silent because hardly anyone cares to listen any more ...

Attorney Ruben Smith, born and raised on the streets of Guadalajara, was determined to create a better life for himself and hi...

Government-approved labels on tuna cans say "dolphin-safe," but a federal appeals court is not convinced that regulators have ...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Thomas Jefferson School of Law student Christie Edwards has received the secon...

Stanley Leal, a longtime San Jose area plaintiffs' attorney who continued working long after he was diagnosed with pancreatic ...

Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - Attorney Katherine L. McDaniel has moved her trademark and copyright practice to the 35-attor...

Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - LOS ANGELES - Dreier Stein & Kahan has picked up a team of transactional lawyers fro...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - The "merger effect" has struck again: Founding partner Gerard Fox and partner ...

Industry Watch - By Jason Song - Three Los Angeles attorneys are among a team retained by the 2007 Special Olympics World Sum...

Focus Column - By Belynda Reck - California has long stood at the forefront of environmental regulation and litigation. One hi...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Liane Randolph, immediate past chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commissi...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - After eight years at small Century City shop Altman & Morris, white-collar...

Forum Column - By Daniel W. Bir - Major League Baseball controls virtually every revenue-producing avenue of the great America...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps' San Francisco office is making a stir in th...

LOS ANGELES - For a moment, it seemed the co-creators of "Will & Grace" might be the beneficiaries of something most unusu...

A trial judge has turned back a demand to halt a large housing development in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta until planners ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank will pay $10 million to settle a class action for allegedly engaging in "bait and switch" tac...

On the Move

Judge Timothy Fall's devotion to detail keeps things running smoothly in his courtroom and serves him when he substitutes at h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hiring in the legal industry will remain strong in 2007. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Emotions were running high in March as attorneys sat down with mediator Lawrence Irving, a retired federal jud...

For a second time in less than a week, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego are asking a federal bankruptcy jud...

A verdict was delayed Thursday in a multimillion-dollar case pitting the creators of "Will & Grace" against NBC Studios be...

LOS ANGELES - Another co-conspirator in the murder-and-kidnapping plot targeting Russian immigrants that put two men on death ...

LOS ANGELES - Competent and compelling expert witnesses are critical to the outcomes of cases from the straightforward to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge was chastised Thursday for abusing his judicial power by threatening...

Forum Column - By Karen Mathis – Given our nation’s embattled history over gun regulation and over the rights of the mentally ...

An appellate court Thursday rebuked San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Chuck Haines for ignoring its earlier order to s...